This archive contains replication files for the article "Overseas Credit Claiming
and Domestic Support for Foreign Aid" by Simone Dietrich, Susan Hyde, and 
Matthew S. Winters, published in the Journal of Experimental Political Science.

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* CONTENTS *
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This archive contains

(1) DietrichEtAl_JEPS_BrandedAid.dta - the replication data

(2) DietrichEtAl_JEPS_BrandedAid.do - the .do file that runs the analyses found
in the paper and the online appendix

(3) DietrichEtAl_JEPS_BrandedAid.log - a .log file showing the ouput from running 
file (2)

(4) This README file, which describes the archive, the data processing that produces
the replication data, and the variables used in the analysis

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* DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA *
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* Data Collection

We recruited survey respondents through three different university-based labs (at Essex,
Edinburgh, and Oxford).  Each lab did its own recrutiment, and respondents took 
the survey through identical but seperate Qualtrics implementations.  

In the Edinburgh lab, enumeration began on 25 March 2016 and ended on 9 April 2016.
In the Essex lab, survey enumeration began on 31 March 2016 and ended on 18 April 2016.
In the Oxford lab, enumeration began on 30 March 2016 and edned on 17 April 2016.

We downloaded the three raw data files on 18 April 2016 and combined them into a
single master file.

* Ineligible Responses

The combined data from the three labs contained 1,107 rows.  

For 70 of these rows, there were zero questions answered.  The respondent opened 
the survey (N=62) and either exited before answering the informed consent question or 
else answered the informed consent question but then no actual survey questions (N=8). 

52 respondents said that they were not U.K. citizens, terminating their surveys 
at that time.

20 respondents stopped taking the survey after answering the citizenship question.

17 respondents exited from the survey during the initial block of questions.

We drop 151 respondents because of a programming error that jettisoned some respondents
assigned to the pure control condition before the collection of the outcome variables
of interest.  The programming error affected respondents from all three labs.

2 respondents terminated the survey during the section measuring our outcomes of interest;
we drop these observations.

18 respondents reported, in an open-ended question at the end of the survey, that they
had difficulties viewing the video.  These respondents were evenly distributed
across the treatment conditions involving videos.  We drop all 18 from the analysis.

This leaves us with 777 observations in the master data.


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* DESCRIPTION OF THE VARIABLES *
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survey - indicator for experimental lab - (1) Edinburgh; (2) Essex; (3) Oxford

condition - (1) Pure Control; (2) Control Video; (3) Branded Video; (4) Highlighted
 Video; (5) Strategic Video

purecontrol_01 - indicator for pure control condition
control_video_01 - indicator for control video condition
branded_video_01 - indicator for branded video condition
highlighted_video_01 - indicator for highlighted video condition
strategic_video_01 - indicator for strategic video condition
 
controlvideo_v_purecontrol - (0) Pure Control; (1) Control Video
brandedvideoonly_v_purecontrol - (0) Pure Control; (1) Branded Video
highlightedvideo_v_purecontrol - (0) Pure Control; (1) Highlighted Video
strategicvideo_v_purecontrol - (0) Pure Control; (1) Strategic Video
brandedvideoonly_v_controlvideo - (0) Control Video; (1) Branded Video
highlightedvideo_v_controlvideo - (0) Control Video; (1) Highlighted Video
strategicvideo_v_controlvideo - (0) Control Video; (1) Strategic Video
highlightedvideo_v_brandedvideo - (0) Branded Video; (1) Highlighted Video
stratgicvideo_v_highlightedvideo  - (0) Highlighted Video; (1) Strategic Video
 
open_uk - indicator for whether respondent referenced ukAID or the United Kingdom 
 in response to the manipulation check question at the end of the survey ("Thinking 
 again about the video that we watched before, there were some logos – little symbols
 – on the screen during the video. Do you remember those logos / symbols, and 
 can you tell me what they were?")
 
bangladeshis_knowsscfunds - indicator for positive responses to the question "Do 
 you think that people in Bangladesh know that the Smiling Sun Clinics are funded 
 by the United Kingdom?"

aid_spentwell - response to "In your opinion, does the U.K. government do a good 
 job of ensuring that our foreign aid is well spent by the countries that receive it?"
 - coding reversed such that (1) Very Bad; (2) Somewhat Bad; (3) Neither Good Nor Bad;
 (4) Somewhat Good; (5) Very Good

support_ssc - response to "Thinking back about the video, do you think that the 
 United Kingdom should increase its support of the Smiling Sun Clinics as part of 
 its foreign development assistance program?" - coding reversed such that (1) Greatly
 Decrease; (2) Somewhat Decrease; (3) Neither Increase Nor Decrease; (4) Somewhat
 Increase; (5) Greatly Increase
 
ssc_othercountries - indicator for positive responses to the question "Do you think 
 the United Kingdom should fund projects like the Smiling Sun Clinics in other countries 
 besides Bangladesh?"
 
aid_spendmore - response to "Thinking back to the U.K. Government’s current budget of 
 £760 billion: this year, the government is expected to spend 1.4 percent of the annual 
 budget (which is 0.7 percent of the U.K.'s Gross National Income) on foreign aid to 
 help people in poor countries. Knowing this, do you think the government should: spend 
 more, the same amount, or less money to help people in poor countries?" - coding 
 reversed such that (1) Spend Less Money; (2) Spend the Same Amount; (3) Spend More
 Money
 
statement_poverty - response to "Here are statements that people have made in the past 
 about foreign aid. For each statement, please indicate your level of agreement. ...
 Foreign aid is an effective tool for reducing poverty in poorer countries." - 
 coding reversed such that (1) Strongly Disagree; (2) Disagree; (3) Neither Agree
 Nor Disagree; (4) Agree; (5) Strongly Agree
 
statement_globalhealth - response to "Here are statements that people have made in the 
 past about foreign aid. For each statement, please indicate your level of agreement. 
 ... Foreign aid is an important way of addressing global health problems." - 
 coding reversed such that (1) Strongly Disagree; (2) Disagree; (3) Neither Agree
 Nor Disagree; (4) Agree; (5) Strongly Agree
 
govt_foreignpolicy - response to "On a scale from 1 (very badly) to 5 (very well), 
 can you indicate your opinion about how the Conservative government has handled the 
 following issues? ... Foreign Policy"
 
govt_foreignaid - response to "On a scale from 1 (very badly) to 5 (very well), 
 can you indicate your opinion about how the Conservative government has handled the 
 following issues? ... Foreign Aid"
 
left - recoding of respondent's self-placement on an ideological scale running from 
 1 (very left) to 5 (very right) by 0.1 units; (0) if respondent placed themselves 
 at 3 or above on the scale; (1) if respondent placed themselves below 3 on the scale
 
female - 0/1 indicator for self-reported gender

age - calculated as 2016 - self-reported year of birth

ethnicity - response to "What ethnic group or groups best describe you?" (1) White; 
 (2) Asian or Asian British; (3) Black or Black British; (4) Mixed; (5) Other

education - response to "What is the highest level of education that you have 
 completed?" (1) Some Secondary Schooling or Less; (2) Finished Secondary Schooling;
 (3) Completed A-Levels; (4) Bachelor's Degree; (5) Post-Graduate/Advanced Degree

income - response to "Please provide your best estimate of your pre-tax total 
 household income in the previous year." (1) Under GBP 7,000; (2) GBP 7,001 to 
 GBP 12,000; (3) GBP 12,001 to GBP 20,000; (4) GBP 20,001 to GBP 40,000;
 (5) GBP 40,001 to GBP 60,000; (6) GBP 60,001 to GBP 100,000;
 (7) More Than GBP 100,001
